are an acoustic group who set classic poetry to music. The band began its evolution when singer-songwriter Mog Fry met Spiro guitarist Jon Hunt in 2003. Initially working as a duo they were both drawn to the words of the great poets such as Tennyson, Keats, Herrick and Emily Dickinson. Following the release of their debut album "This is Charing Cross" (2006) the line-up expanded to include piano, strings and bass.

Reviews

'Gorgeous gorgeous stuff'

"There's a satisfying lushness to this
album that draws you back to sink into its intricate acoustic tapestries
over and over again. And then you listen - properly listen - to the
words, letting them unfurl their vivid imagery once more. It all works
perfectly, thanks to three impressive elements: Mog Fry's amazing voice,
a faux-artless folk instrument with the reach of a diva; Jon Hunt's
meticulous multi-instrumental imagination; the dozen well known chosen
poems from the likes of Keats and Blake that provide the lyrics. Yes -
it's real poetry, but set in these rich arrangements and spelled out in
Mog's compelling delivery you simply hear crafted lyrics: Tennyson's
'Touch of a Vanished Hand' could be Morrissey, with a string arrangement
by Jonny Marr. Gorgeous gorgeous stuff in a world of its own." Tony
Benjamin, Venue *****

'Captivating'

"Captivating...total immersion music that dunks
you into the poem and gently holds you there.' Decode Media

'Ethereal and
splintered by turns'

"Ethereal and
splintered by turns...a strange Victorian world of velvet menace. Odes
by Dickinson, Wilde and Hardy, all set to slow-burn acoustic soundtracks
that grew assuredly from placid to menacing." Venue

'An unexpected thrill'

"This duo took a
clutch of classic poems by Tennyson, Wilde et al out of their aspic and
set them to their own edgy haunting acoustic ballads. Her voice has
something of Beth Gibbon's autumnal glow: he has the wildest eyes this
side of a death-metal convention. An unexpected thrill" Venue

'Beguiling, mysterious and intriguingly fresh'

"The
Wraiths' music is beguiling, mysterious and intriguingly fresh; it has a
very fluid, organic feel to it that perfectly matches the cadences of
the poems themselves, whether they be in 'free verse' or strict meter.
From Shakespeare to Emily Dickinson, Romanticism to Imagism, theirs was a
homage to the work of great artists that became, in and of itself, a
new and fascinating art form. I gush... we loved them" Nathan Lewis
Williams (FFF)Glastonbury Assembly Rooms

Listening to The Wraiths one
senses more than two presences: firstly these accomplished musicians of
today with their fresh and lifelike, ever-reverent interpretations; but
also the ghosts of the various chosen poets themselves, their lives and
loves, their dreams and fragile glimpses of immortality.That poets
throughout all ages have aspired to, and been inspired by music is
apparent; from Brythonic bards and the troubadors of Provence to a
twentieth century Yeats, replete with lyre and Celtic incantations, the
raving Ezra Pound, the howling Ginsberg, or T.S. Eliot's clipped
accented drone at 33.3...